Glendale AZ

For years, the Murphy Elementary School campus in southwest Phoenix sat empty. Now it has been remade into a two-building industrial park called Merit 27 Buckeye, and both buildings are already fully leased. The project replaces a rundown school site on roughly 18 acres near 27th Avenue and Buckeye Road, after months...

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. — Animals are safe after a large fire burned near the Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium in Litchfield Park on Thursday afternoon. The fire started on a private property adjacent to several animal enclosures near Northern and Sarival Avenues. >> Live, local, breaking. Download the 12News...

In Arizona, new restaurants open and close before the menus even get a chance to wear in. This place is different. It never tried to keep up in the first place. Not by reinventing itself, but by choosing not to. The sauce tastes exactly like it did thirty years ago....

At around 11 p.m. on February 5, 2023, officers were called to Steele Indian School Park and found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound in her running vehicle. She was later pronounced dead.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Two motorcyclists were arrested after allegedly driving more than 115 mph on a major Phoenix freeway last week, with one rider leading troopers on a short chase. On March 29, an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper was on an overpass along Loop 202 near Sky...

PHOENIX (InvestigateTV) — A Phoenix woman fell victim to an elaborate phone scam that left her almost on the hook for nearly $7,300 worth of cell phones after a fraudster posed as an AT&T representative. Sheryl Johnson had been experiencing trouble with her phone service and mentioned it to...

This week’s Dirty Dining roundup did not do any favors for Phoenix's appetites. Maricopa County inspectors reportedly found a dead lobster in a tank, expired chicken, and several other major safety lapses at Valley eateries. Those violations, which included missing sanitizer at prep stations and foods held at unsafe...

There’s a diner in Arizona that has locals lining up before the doors even open on Friday evenings, and the reason is clear. The fish fry has built a reputation that spreads quickly, and the satisfied smiles of people leaving with takeout boxes. This spot keeps popping up in...

The restaurant group behind Pa’La Wood-Fired Kitchen and Tortas Paquimé will open two new West Valley restaurants this spring. TPQ Foods, which runs both locations of the Phoenix restaurant and the casual Valley-wide torta shops, is readying eateries in Goodyear and Glendale that riff on the group’s original concepts.

PHOENIX — The owner of a Peoria tax preparation business was indicted for allegedly filing fraudulent returns for clients and himself, authorities announced Wednesday. The indictment against 38-year-old Butoyi Mechak includes 14 counts of willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of false or fraudulent tax...